2010 TXC 250 Morning ride

Hi all, especially San Diego Husky riders,

I will be out at McCain Valley OHV wed. 11/25, in the morning to put the new TXC 250 through its paces...Do some set up stuff for Tecate Hare Scrambles etc...

If anyone wants to come out, you can ride it and see what ya think..I think you wont' be dissapointed with this bike

Should be there between 9 and noon...before going back to work...

I will be at the day use area, 89 ford f-250 (tan).

Mitch.

Hey Mitch enjoy your AM ride and give us a ride report.

oh man........be sure to roll through to "real trails" up there!!There are some really good ones added to the homegrown mix.
We all did some set up stuff last weekend, for our Kato crew we helped em do sag and clickers plus clutch bleed, 4 me it was reset sag, back off the HSCD a couple clicks, and raise my front to the first ring from top was 2 down. I sure hope we have some rain before this one, but heck been riding alot of dust during training sessions!! Let us know how it goes!!RN
I'll fone ya up later.

McCain Ride Report

Hi All, well got out there at about 9 am...little breezy, but otherwise an unusually sunny day in eastern San Diego County

As usual, the starter brings her to life real quickly...Started with some atv wide trails to get a better feel for the bike and moved into tighter single track....

Couple of things...this motor spools up quickly and I think makes its money in the midrange...Like Kelly stated in a previous post, you could probably ride it in the midrange of the powerband and not shift to often...I still have that nasty bottom end hesitation...like some others here have posted and Dirt Bike ragazine commented on in the Dec. issue. She hesitates getting off the bottom, which will be a concern when racing and transitioning from out of the low end of the powerband. I found myself clutching a lot when she would hesitate...

Besides this though, once your out of that trouble zone and your zipping along working the trail...man she just flows...point and shoot...point and shoot....it is super easy to work the bike...the chassis is super nimble and you can be aggressive...really get into turns and rail it....like a 2 smoker...really get into the turns, accelerate hard to the next turn and repeat...

Suspension: I pounded 2 to 3 foot whoops and man, that suspension just soaked it up...the bike stays straight and never deflected or swapped...it felt super stable through the whoops....5th gear pinned...The bike is so light and agile feeling, it is easy to overjump stuff at first...but after a while you get a rythm going...

I will soon try some of the settings that have been recommended on here and hopefully it clears it out on the low end. That is my only complaint....which if I had the ibeat software already, it would be done and over with...so its really not a big deal....

This bike does not wear you out at all, you can ride it slow or fast, slow trails to faster flowing stuff....



Mitch.

Thanks for your ride report it sounds like you had a fun morning. I'm sure someone will sort out the off idle hesitation.

Keep the ride reports coming. The more comments about fuel mileage the better. Also, I hate hearing how much better any bike runs with a free flowing exhaust. I hate loud bikes but I want all the power a bike can muster.

My inside person has told me the TE and TXC have almost identical engines but the TE has a db killer inserted. Given the performance the TXC appears to gain with the SA removed I cringe at how choked up the TE just might be.

I am curious to hear what US riders have to say about the TE. That is probably my next bike regardless but I hate to think I need a loud bike to extract strong power. In fact, one reason I used to ride 450's was that even choked off and quiet, they made lots of power.

Maybe the FMF Q4 will be the answer?

http://www.fmfracing.com/Mode/Category/380

NC

I hate loud bikes too. I really am disappointed you have to remove the SA to make the TXC run good. Hopefully further EFI tuning will cure this, along with improving the fuel range. I'd like to have one of these bikes, but I'm hanging on to my 250X in the meantime.

I tried to get a Q4 Stealth for my WR250, but FMF doesn't make one for this Husky. I ride in a noise sensitive area and even my two stroke is too loud.

I have to give Honda some respect for the x silencer. That thing is super quiet. And I remember when the mags tested louder silencers and included dyno runs. I think all the loud ones only made like half a HP more at valve floating rpms and actually lost some bottom. The stock quiet one appeared to make the best woods power. So how did they do this? Is it that it is a mechanical silencer so it is heavy but not restrictive? I am not a big Honda fan but I have always been attracted to that bike because it can run good while being so quiet.

Is a Q Steath coming out for the Husky? Maybe it will be quiet and not choke the bike up. Or maybe with some careful efi tuning the bike will run with a quiet silener without much power loss? I want to like the new Husky 250 so I am wathing to see if all the efi, sound, and gas tank issues get resolved. I imagine they will be by the time I am ready to buy.

My WR125 is really loud on the pipe but it is high pitched. With a helmet on most of it goes away. I know I am not disturbing other forest uses unless they are right behind me. I don't want a bike that can be heard all over the mountain.

I wish they had kept all of the 08 & up bikes as quiet as the 07's. My 07 regularly blows 86-88db at 4500rpm, or 90-92 at 6500. Never been repacked either.

Is the TXC as fast as Adams WR 250 ?

Wow !

Not surprising, as my 07 TE 250 only gives up 2-3 bike lengths to 70mph against a WR250 Husky.
Against a new KTM 200 XC or XCW it's a flip of the coin, depending on who's riding.
Drop 30-35 # off my bike(I have ~10# of extra junk & accesories attached) and add 2-3 Hp, I'm sure It could easily equal or beat most 250 2 strokes.